The Thing That Will Crush You

I wrote this on a Sunday ... on a topic God is challenging me on. Drop your comments below to let me know what you think. 
ajh 

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It feels so right we tell Ourselves boldly.
It sounds so good we whisper when doubt.
It appears so delightful, tantalizing and free!
Everyone else is doing it - I just want to be me!

It lets us be first - always it seems.
We can live by pure wants and human extremes.
We can idolize, stoke, and please it with whims.
We can go with our feelings again and again

​There is danger to let it play out at full throttle.
To elevate, oppresses and holds back our potential.
To worship it causes us to lose out on dreams.
To live by it will not bring the results that we think.

There is a tantalizing poison among us.
It has been here since the beginning of time.
It is loud, proud, and deadly to those who live by it.
It will cost you real joy, peace, wholeness and life.

Self is that which I speak! Self is what we must show!
Our nation is plagued - this awful disease.
Our classrooms, our boardrooms, our homes and our hearts.
Yearn to make Self - and self only- lord, god, and king.

We follow it, stoke it, cuddle it close!
We rationalize it, protect it, and defend it thru time.
We say we are victim if our self isn’t first.
We challenge other Selves for ignoring our worth.

How silly are we a nation of Selves.
We miss the true beauty of life it would seem.
To live the best life means to surrender it all
To let Only One be Lord, God and King.

Yes my self sure has value but all at His feet.
Partnered with Him is nothing to compete
Oh how He loves me but He knows the me I surrender.
And when I do it I live all the better.

​If only my nation would open its eyes
Surrender ourselves without compromise
We would know waves of healing and miracles galore
But first we must oust “me and self” right out the door.
Ajh

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